I often see people say that Samus was the first female video

>>4076363
Ms. Pac Man

>>4076363
No but she is the first notable female protagonist.

Dunno maybe the game Nintendo ripped off, Baraduke?

>>4076364
/thread

She was the first female character that mattered because she was female.

The reason the fact that she's female matters is because you don't have any idea that she's female in the first game and, for all intents and purposes, it doesn't matter that she's female to your experience of the game.

It's a dumb paradox.

Anyway, Samus is cool because she used to be some combination of the T800 and Rambo until Other M.

>>4076363
>6'3"
>200lbs
THICC

>>4076368
>>4076507
Hi summer!

>>4076514
>retro games is just nintendo
Indeed smells like summer here.

>>4076517
Nintendo was very big and influential at the time, champ.

>>4076368
Name one

>>4076523
Yeah stealing Namco's ideas sure is something to be proud of

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When anyone brings up the first HUMAN female video game protagonist I always think of the whores from Beat 'em and eat 'em.

>>4076363
Not true. Also, the "reveal" was a blatant ripoff.

>>4076368
Assmad 3rd worlder detected.

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>>4076363
Phantasy star, first human female.

>>4076857
https://www.giantbomb.com/female-protagonists/3015-2287/

List of who came first.

Discounting arcade and computer games, the earliest one is... the nude woman "ball" from Bachelorette Party, released in 1982.

Not a very satisfying answer.

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The first one was Ms. Pac Man, I guess.

If we are talking about humans, there's many female protagonists from japanese games before Samus or that girl from Phantasy Star.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/inventories/80sheroines.htm

>>4078206
>metroid wasn't until gamecube so its not rly retro
what the fuck

>>4078206
>heard it was a sjw site
literally being this triggered

>>4078206
>metroid wasn't until gamecube
How fucking dumb are you?

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>>4078206
>This entire shitpost

>>4078206
what the fuck? gamecube is over 15 years old, how is it not retro?

>>4076450
yeah dog. that's why they call it the power suit

Not even close.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/inventories/80sheroines.htm

>>4078660
bro those arent video games. those are like lights on your television

>>4078630
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>>4078256
ya'll are on 4chan but you don't know a troll when you see it? come on.

>>4078836
I have a fetish for feeding trolls

>>4076548
Is this actually the first video game with a female human protag? I hope not.

>>4076363


jill of the jungle

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>>4078206
>wasn't until GameCube
I see what you're doing, and I don't like it

>>4076363
Samus is a trans woman. Deal with it.

>>4076363
>I often see people say that Samus was the first female video game protagonist.

No one has ever said this.

>>4080126
I love how angry the internet got over that when the article was basically "this is my headcannon and I know it's wrong but i like it anyway"
I would love for Nintendo to pull a stunt like this. No one would be happy. It would be hilarious.

>>4080190
In my headcanon, Samus is a strong independent lesbian who don't need no man.

Honestly, to me, seeing Nintendo ship her into anything vaguely resembling a heteronormative relationship would be like Other M all over again.

>>4076363
No of course not anon, those are nintodlers who think nintendo also "saved gaming" after the mythical "Worldwide video game crash" they always go on about. These people are blinded by nostalgia and use what they were exposed to as if it was a definitive history. Hell, if you want a nintendo example, Ice Climber had a female playable character a whole year earlier. Don't listen to these indie loving shmucks anon.

>>4076447
>What is, "Baraduke"?
I'll take "bullshit" for 200

>>4080424
The game I was referring to earlier when I mentioned how Metroid ripped off the ending. Good to see there's at least one other person ITT who has a clue.

>>4076364
fpbp as always

>>4076450
more like BULCC

>>4080310
That game was good.

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>>4080424
>game still calls the player character A BRAVE MAN
Triggered.

>>4079941
fucking this

>>4080872
If the game was calling the player character a brave mad wouldn't it just tell the player character in whatever language/method the game and the player character communicate in stead of printing it in the screen for you to read?

As a kid I thought that staying too long on Zebes turned you into a robot

People who think Samus was the first female video game protagonist, are probably the same people who ramble about there being almost no female-led video games before Overwatch.

>>4078660
>>4078020
Fuck, this page is definitely informative (even though they decided not to include non-human characters for some weird reason), but it's really annoying to read. As someone who understands the need to criticize narratives that stereotype women as weak and helpless or featureless sex dolls, I say this article's writers sound like a couple of busybody soccer moms looking hard for something to find objectionable.

"She shows too much cleavage!" "She shows too much leg!" "It's *gasp!* an erotic game! The horror!" When you think Razor from Maniac Mansion is "problematic"... yeah, there's a problem, but not with Ron Gilbert's game.

"Oh no, there's 1 girl and 3 guys in a party! Inequality!" – Isn't it however an adequate representation of the female-to-male gamer ratio in the 80s? Same with the female-to-male protagonist ratio, it wasn't some sort of insidious plot against women, male-targeted games just had a bigger market back then.

Also wtf, Wizard was the worst character in Gauntlet, not Valkyrie

>>4083332
you seem pretty rustled bruh

>>4083797
Well yeah, it's pretty rustling when you see an otherwise great and informative site resort to bullshit moralfaggotry in what could've been a fine article

How does she lift her arms without breaking her humerus?

>>4083332
>male-targeted games just had a bigger market back then.

Eh, they still do